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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Heart
Breaking
Smile
Woman

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Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.
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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
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You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
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Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
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Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.
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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
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I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future I am going to make it happen.
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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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I am too dark in my heart tonight.
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I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.
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We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
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Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.
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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
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It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?
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I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.
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... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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